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True. If it wasn't for the license war between AT&T and BSD we would live in a parallel universe where everyone is running FreeBSD everywhere. Kind of cool how
by ultraballer 10y ago
True. If it wasn't for the license war between AT&T and BSD we would live in a parallel universe where everyone is running FreeBSD everywhere.
Kind of cool how randomness creates forks in time.
- ccozan 10y agoAbsolutely true about the war that lead to the Linux mainstreaming. And btw, is there a list of such points in computing history, where a slightly small change in a decision would have lead to a different computing environment ( i.e. "forks in time") ? This would be a very good read. And a nice practical introduction of chaos theory.
- mamon 10y agoOne such moment was when IBM decided to sign the deal with Microsoft, giving them exclusive license on operating systems for IBM PC. As someone put it: Were there one person with a brain at IBM to proof-read that deal, Microsoft would never become such a big company as it is today. But there wasn't any, so we ended up with Windows at 95% of PCs worldwide.